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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: How many pilots does the Civil Defence have for the drones? The witnesses may not know the answer to that. I do not wish to be unfair in my questions. The fact that 21 of the units have drone technology and what the Civil Defence is able to do with that technology is phenomenal and I offer my congratulations in that regard. Is it relying on one person in each of the 21 units, however, or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: I congratulate the witnesses on this. It is fantastic stuff. Well done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: It will still take me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: So far, the Civil Defence has come across as an extremely professional, forward-thinking organisation. I am not one bit surprised. I have a couple of questions. My colleague, Deputy Berry, brought up in the Dáil some time ago the need for legislation to protect employment while volunteers in the Defence Forces are deployed overseas. Similarly, is there protection in place for Civil...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Does the Civil Defence share members with volunteer fire services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: If the Civil Defence has my mobile phone number and I am lost on a mountain with a broken leg, can the organisation triangulate that and get GPS co-ordinates?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Is it a bespoke system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Do the instructors get expenses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: If one of the volunteers strays outside the family, is there a way of terminating his or her role?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Is there an appeals mechanism?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Great.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: They will know for next time.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, for attending. Today, I am following up on a reply from the Minister for Health to a parliamentary question last October, in which he said his Department was considering a proposal to establish a working group to assist in the development of an updated strategy that addresses the hearing needs of the Irish population. I am grateful for the great...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister of State will have noticed that I am wearing headphones. I suffer badly from hearing loss and I can tell him it is the most frustrating disability. In crowded spaces I find I do not quite pick up on what people say and sometimes I get the wrong message. My wife reminded me that one time in a crowded gathering I was answering questions I had not been asked. It was an...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: Pardon?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State. I am sure many in here would be delighted if I were on the periphery of conversations.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2023)
Gerard Craughwell: I ask that the Leader raise that with Government to ensure we get the people who are answerable.